James heeva jones



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J. H. JONES.

HORSE HAY RAKE.

Patented Mar. 20, 1888.

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PATENT JAMES .HERVA QIONES, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO EMERSON, TALOOTT & COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

HORSE HAY-RAKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 379.895, dated March 20,1888.

Application filed July 7. 1887. Serial No. 243,644.

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To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JAMES HERVA JoNEs, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Rockford, in the county of WVinnebago and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horse Hay- Rakes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a class of horse hay-rakes known as the spring-toothed rake. Its object is the improvement of this class of rakes, to cheapen their construction, and make them more durable and more efficient. To this end I have designed and constructed theimprovements represented in the U accompanying drawings,which will be hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an isometrical perspective of my invention, and Fig. 2 a detail perspective view of one of the tooth holding spiders.

In the drawings, the rake-head 1, and the tongue-frame consisting of the tongue 2, crossbeams 3, and end beams, 4, joined to each other, are substantially the same as like parts of rakes heretofore in use.

The rake-teeth 5 are of the usual curved form. Their head ends, however, are made in the vertical open-loop form shown, in which its head end portion, 6, is bent rearward, overlapping the rearward extension of the tooth in the same vertical plane.

A tooth-holder, 7, of spider form, is made with arms 8 radiating from a central hub, 9, having an axial opening to receive a screwbolt, 22, passing through the rake-head, by which it is fixed in place on the rake-head. The forward extending radial arms of the spider are provided with button-formed cars 10 on their opposite outer faces, and these ears are provided with a necking to receive the loop ends 11 of the rake-tooth, and a lip of the spider overlaps the necking of the ears on their forward side to prevent a forward movement of the tooth when in place on the necking of the ears, or an accidental displacement of the tooth. The rearwardly-extending radial arms of the spider are made in vertical loops 13 to receive both arms of the loop-formed head portion of the tooth at or near the rear end of its overlapping portion 6.

The rake-teeth are placed in the spidershaped holder by passing its loop end over the button-formed ears onto the neck-formed portion thereof, and are then turned rearward into the vertical loop of the spider-formed holder, which is then placed on the rake-head at proper intervals throughout its length, and are fixed in place thereon by a screw-bolt passed upward through the rake-head and through the axial opening in the holder, and a screw-nut to the bolt serves to fix the parts in place. This connection of the tooth with the rake-head in its construction and application is such as to permit a limited free vertical movement of the tooth until the end of its overlapping arm 6 engages the under face of the vertical loop 13, and a further vertical spring movement until the tooth proper comes in contact with the end of its overlapping arm 6 in the vertical loop 13.

The spider-shaped holders immediately rearward of the end beams of the tongue-frame are provided at their front ends with depending ears 14,Which are perforated to receive abolt, 17, parallel with the rakehead.

A socket, 15, is fixed to the under face of the rear ends of the end bars, 4:, of the tongueframe, and its rear end is provided with ears 16, to fit between the cars 14 of the toothholding spider, and are perforated to receive the bolt 17, to form a hingejoint connection of the tongue-frame and rake-head.

The forward end portion of the socket 15 is provided with an arm, 18, rising from its outer face edge, and a foot opening, 18, is formed in the base-plate of the socket immediately inside of the uprising arm 18.

The lower end of the rearwardly-inclined support 19 to the bar 20 is placed in the opening in the base of the joint-socket, and is fixed in place by a screw-bolt passed throughv it and through the upper end of the uprising arm 18.

A clearer-bar, 20, of the usual bar form, with depending teeth to engagethe hay,is connected by links 21 to the upper ends of the inclined supports 19 in a manner to permit the clearerbar to conform to the vertical movements of the rake-teeth,and in their upward movements to discharge the hay contained in the curved teeth.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination, with the tooth-holding spider consisting, essentially, of a hub portion, arms radiating from the hub portion, the rear- 5 Wardly-extending arms provided with loops, and the forwardly-extending arms with laterally-extending ears, of a rake-tooth having its forward end bent around the said lateral-extending ears and back upon the tooth, and, to-

10 gether with the backward-bent portion, projecting rearwardly within the said loop on the arm, substantially as set forth.

2. The herein-described tooth-holding spider, consisting, essentially, of a hub portion I5 provided with abo1t-hole, arms radiating from the hub, the forwardly-extending arms being 

